Many historical photographs serve as evidence that things we think have only developed recently actually existed 80 to 100 years ago, and many concepts that seem quite normal today were revolutionary in the past.
A photo from 1912 of a woman charging an electric car.
A Soviet farmer listening to the radio for the first time in 1928.
In 1946, a high school in Chicago (USA) sent female students home for wearing blue jeans.
Using a selfie stick in the 1940s.
A ‘mobile library’ with a woman offering books for loan.
E. Lilian Todd is considered the first woman in the world to design and build a personal airplane in 1909.
An airline reservation from 1945.
A woman at a typewriter with headphones and a lamp in Paris (France) in 1972.
A fleet of Concorde aircraft at London Heathrow Airport (UK) in 1986. The Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft was once seen as a symbol and the future of global aviation. However, it was retired in 2023.
Assembling the Statue of Liberty in New York City (USA) in 1885. This colossal statue was a gift from the people of France to the United States, and workers took four months to complete it.
